好运
hǎo yùn · HSK 5
good luck
🍀 好 = good + 运 = luck/fortune
好运 literally stacks 好 (good) + 运 (luck, fortune, transport). 运 originally meant to move/transport, then broadened to fate carried along — so 好运 is good fortune coming your way.
好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'
运 — walk radical 辶 + 军 jūn (army)
Originally depicted an army (军) on the move (辶), meaning to transport or move troops. The sense broadened to 'transport, move, revolve' and later acquired the abstract meaning of 'fortune' or 'luck'—what fate moves toward you. The simplified form replaces traditional 運.